I’m waiting for a condition of the bailout to be separating Boeing Defense from Boeing Aerospace, so the aerospace side can fail

I think it’s intended as a tongue-in-cheek comment about phones already tracking you, and the OEMs selling that data.

Also they’re completely ignoring the immense personal safety benefits that come with knowing if, say, an abusive ex has slipped an airtag into your car somewhere. This is actually a responsible move for once (assuming it works as intended) because it addresses an unintended but dangerous use for the product, and attempts to prevent it rather than just killing a useful product.

I know they’re not new; that’s just what they’re classified as on Wikipedia. It is “new” compared to Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, etc. The distinction is that the Unification Church came about within the last 75 years, and so is not one of the “old” religious movements.

Shinzo Abe was assassinated over his ties to/support of a New religious movement in Japan. Put your tinfoil hat back on and go to your room

We benefit from the bottomless DoD budget for sure. We have the ability to spend as much as it takes on material and training to ensure reliability and safety for the crew. And it shows. We’ve had several undersea collisions (SSN-711 in 2005 and SSN-22 in 2021), and while both incidents were extremely serious, both boats made it safely back to port for repair.

SUBSAFE was implemented in 1963 following the loss of USS Thresher (SSN-593). It’s a remarkably strict QA program for systems and components exposed to seawater/operating pressure. To our credit, we’ve only lost one submarine since 1963 (USS Scorpion, SSN-589, and she was never SUBSAFE-certified), so the program works.

Similarly stringent controls for the Titan would have either caught all the manufacturing defects in the carbon fiber, or prevented anyone from thinking it’s a good idea to begin with. A big part of innovation is learning what rules you can reasonably bend/break, and which should never be touched. I tend to think pressure hull construction falls in the “never touch” category, at least not without a mountain of testing, data collection, fatigue life calculation, etc. along with communication with regulatory bodies to ensure you meet the principles of the regulation, if not the exact words (again, innovation has it’s place).

I work on submarines. Everything that company was doing gave me a panic attack. The SUBSAFE program exists for a reason. Like, there’s a time and place for innovation, and when people’s lives are on the line is NOT it.

Let’s also not forget that there was no way to exit the submersible from the inside. The door was bolted on by the surface team. So if they had just lost power (instead of being crushed), they would’ve been floating on the surface with no way out. That’s the another obvious horrendous design choice.

it’s a solution looking for a problem.

That’s basically the story of Apple in the last decade or so. They create a “solution”, realize it doesn’t actually solve anything, and then they break some other things to make their solution actually work.

So I’m anticipating that the next iPhone won’t have a screen unless viewed through a Vision Pro.

See, it’s all planned, because they then arrest the criminals and ship them right back to the front! So efficient!

Damage is damage. Anything that keeps those ships in yard and not useful to the Russians is a good thing. Especially because now Russia has to sink men, money, and time that they may not necessarily have into fixing them

Knowing the houthis, someone on board probably used the letters “I S R A E L” in conversation at some point, and that was as good a justification to launch some missiles as any they’ve ever had

At the same time, the world can’t just roll over and let every tin pot dictator do whatever they want just because they have a nuke.

“Sooner or later this will end in agreement,” was Putin’s message, arguing that Nato was coming to realise that defeating Russia on the battlefield would be impossible.

Does Putin realize that NATO is effectively fighting Russia with both arms tied behind it’s back right now? We’re funding Ukraine (who are doing a phenomenal job, fwiw), but we’re not even giving them the top of the line hardware. If the US actually got involved, Russia would pretty much instantly lose any glimmer of air superiority they have, and Ukraine could advance all the way to Moscow under NATO air cover. Like, the only reason Russia still exists is because NATO hasn’t even tried to fight Russia on the battlefield yet.

Okay. The F150 Lighting has a range of 240-300 miles per charge, and an MSRP starting at $50k, compared to the cyber truck starting at $81k.

Everyone loves sodium cooled reactors until they have to deal with a loss of coolant casualty.

Oh completely agree. I just wouldn’t think that the parts required to fix a steam boiler are high enough tech to be impacted by sanctions.

The most charitable excuse is that it requires parts they can’t get due to sanctions.

At the same time, it’s a boiler in Russia. How high tech could it possibly be???

FWIW, I read “heat blanket” as one of those reflective metallic emergency blankets you find in wilderness first aid kits. Better than nothing, but no true heat source, as it isn’t powered, electrically or otherwise

The one surefire way to trigger an overwhelming US military response is to shoot down one of our helos. So unless they want the entire Somali Yemeni coast glassed (which, to be fair, they might as part of a larger geopolitical strategy), they would have to be very stupid to shoot at a USN helicopter.

ETA: corrected location; my bad